FUNNY HOW THAT HAPPENS: COVID-19 numbers surge after mask mandate in Hawaii.
Archive for 2020
September 5, 2020
OTHER THAN “DISPARAGING” MCCAIN, THIS ALL IS OBVIOUS BULLSH*T: Trump Scoop By The Atlantic – Real Or Hit Job?
As for disparaging McCain, well, gentle readers, when I worked the phones for him (okay, okay, against Obama) in 2008, this chant would go up periodically, in his OWN phone room, “Do it for Sarah! Drag his skanky *ss over the finish line. Drag, drag, drag.”
THEM AND WHOSE ARMY? Washington Post: Better Vote for Biden or Else.
THESE ARE THE UNDERPANTS ON HEAD, SALUTING CABBAGES YEARS: Roundup Time: Dolezal 2.0, Maolings on Campus, Etc.
September 4, 2020
MY FRIEND NANCY MACE IS RUNNING TO FLIP A CONGRESSIONAL SEAT RED IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AND I THINK SHE’S HIT ON A GREAT ANGLE:
YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE HIM:
ROGER SIMON: Who Will Save America from the Democrats’ Psychotic Race Obsession?
Worse than Trump Derangement Syndrome, the Democrats suffer from Racial Derangement Syndrome (RDS)—a desire to find racism under every rock and down every rabbit hole.
Recent examples are myriad. A particularly amusing one comes from their presidential candidate Joe Biden who told a (remarkably sparse) largely black audience in Kenosha, Wisconsin that the light bulb was not invented by Thomas Edison but by an African American, Lewis Latimer.
It’s hard to know where Biden—who plagiarized in law school and a fair number of times thereafter and now has, shall we say, issues—gets his information but this would have been news to Latimer himself, a brilliant man with an inspiring story who happens to be the author of “Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System.” [italics mine]
Slow Joe does it again. Plus:
More significantly and less risibly, a cabal of far left-leaning Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and House members Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) with the choral support of Sens. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) have initiated legislation declaring racism a “public health crisis.”
If this is true—and it’s not; it’s a politically motivated crisis—the “viral load” transmitting this particular illness comes directly from those same Democrats and their media claque. They should all have been wearing masks.
The first spores of this disease appeared during the Obama administration after a black man had been overwhelmingly elected president by supposedly “racist” America not once, but twice.
Well.
OPEN THREAD: Discuss the events of the day. Or whatever else you like.
GOOD. BLOCKING STREETS IS DANGEROUS, AND STEALS HOURS FROM OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES WITHOUT COMPENSATION. Washington Cops Arrest All the BLM “Protesters” Illegally Blocking Commuters From Going Home.
WHO KNEW THERE WERE SUVS IN THE PLEISTOCENE? Mastodons Migrated Vast Distances in Response to Climate Change.
I CAN REMEMBER WHEN MAKING PEACE IN THE MIDEAST AND OTHER TROUBLED AREAS WOULD HAVE BEEN NEWS:
Related: Newspapers are dead, just 3% get political news from them.
UPDATE: Heh.
CATS KEEP CHASING THE LASER POINTER: I was asked to join the Legal Talk Network’s “Lawyer2Lawyer” podcast and talk about Trump’s spokesperson claiming to be building a dossier on Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold. My view?
Meh. Trump is very good at poking the media in the eye and they can’t help themselves from freaking out. Moreover, they conveniently forget that previous administrations spied on James Rosen, The Associated Press and Sharyl Attkisson. In fact, bullying, badgering and bribing is nothing new with politicians and the press. So the breathless reporting and use of words like “astonishing revelation” are just silly.
FUN FACT: According to the Truman Library, in 1950 Truman — on White House letterhead — threatened to beat a music critic who gave his daughter a bad review:
“Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!”
Now that’s intimidation!
WORKING WASHINGTON ISN’T WHAT IT PURPORTS TO BE: The Washington State group is organized as a 501(C)(4), but there’s more to the story. An analysis by Jonathan Harsh of the Capital Research Center (CRC) of WW’s leadership and funding makes clear this bunch is a front for radical SEIU activism.
ANDREW KLAVAN: The Unbearable Rightness Of Trump.
WELL, OKAY THEN: Wear a mask while having sex, Canada’s top doctor suggests.
VIDEO: The Bidens’ Chinese Secrets. “Representatives of the Biden family have denied any connection between the vice president’s visit and Hunter’s business. However, a BHR representative told The New Yorker earlier this year that Hunter used the opportunity to introduce his father to Chinese private equity executive Jonathan Li, who became CEO of BHR after the deal’s conclusion.”
Click on over.
NOT REALLY A SCOOP, BUT WORTH POINTING UP: REVEALED: The Atlantic is owned by a Biden megadonor. “Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, is the majority stakeholder in the publication. Powell Jobs was named by The New York Times among those who financed at least $500,000 of then-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign in the 2nd quarter this year.”